Crossword clues for gentrify
gentrify
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"renovate inner-city housing to middle-class standards," by 1972, from gentry + -fy. Related: Gentrified, which was used from early 19c. of persons.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to renovate something, especially housing, to make it more appealing to the middle classes
WordNet
v. renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town"
Usage examples of "gentrify".
The mew with its granite setts takes them away from the tower blocks and maisonettes to a world of gentrified Victorian cottages converted from stables, and flat-roofed, architect-designed houses in wood and yellow brick, with living room windows on the first floor extending the width of the frontage.
Waterboro was being gentrified and ossified, and it was hoped that the Institute would be able to restore life to the community.
And then it was clear: pickup basketball on an urban court around which rip-off-the-tourist drug deals met gentrified neighborhood in early autumn sunshine.
South was low ground, traditionally poorer, now patchily gentrified, but with a unique nature of its own.
Since then, they had been smartened up and gentrified out of all recognition, their gleaming paintwork and shiny, clean, linen-draped windows confusing and bewildering her.
This was a semirural section of the Gia Hoi suburb of Hue, a place we would describe today as a gentrified exurb.
The ghetto gentrifies as the blocks march south, and much of Sloane is the demarcation line between the lawless and the law-abiding.
What had formerly been the Meat-Packing District was gentrifying rapidly, high-priced boutiques and luxury condos driving out the artists, drug dealers, and fetish clubs that had flourished here in low-rent days.